New preprint from the lab led my talented postdoc Isabel Wassing! She discovered that CDCA7's unique zf-4CXXC_R1 domain acts as a novel hemi-methylated DNA binding module to recruit the nucleosome remodeler HELLS and help DNA methylation! Check out her tutorial!

Please RT. Interested in understanding the role of chromosome instability and micronuclei in cancer development? We have a postdoc position IEO generously funded by Worldwide Cancer Research to work on this exciting topic. Starting date April 1, 2024.

We have an exciting new venue and programme that includes keynote Rebecca Heald, panelists/discussion leaders so far including Karen Miga, Gary Karpen, Simona Giunta, Jessica Fellmeth, Patrick Heun and Bradley French (Novartis, formerly Aaron Straight lab). More to follow!

Day 1: Countdown to a cool new preprint exploring alternative translational control during the cell cycle. Interphase cells survive translation inhibition for days. Translation levels decrease in mitosis, but did you know that mitotic cells strongly require new translation?

The Giunta Lab is hiring!!! 🧬🔬🧪 Several ERC-funded positions open starting Sept. 24 on our CentroFun project to learn more about human #DNA More info here: sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/gi… Email me or join us in sunny Rome next week at the #HUGO24 Sapienza Università di Roma Pls RT ❣️

Dear community, we are very happy to announce the next Giin webinar!! Don't miss it on Tuesday, April 9th, from 5PM Rome (11AM NYC), with Stephen Jackson Steve Jackson Lab and Simona Giunta Simona Giunta. Zoom link: uniroma1.zoom.us/j/95149984403

Almost starting the main sessions at the #HGM24 ! In the magnificent “Aula Magna” of La Sapienza (waiting for some authorities for greetings and speeches).

Wonderful science&time with the whole Giunta Lab at Human Genome Meeting 2024 in our very own Sapienza Università di Roma Italy. Still to come, poster presentations from the lab + my talk tomorrow Wednesday at 2.30 PM (Main auditorium). Join us! #HGM24 #HUGO2024 #HumanReferenceGenomes

Italian human geneticists Enza Colonna Nicole Soranzo Tamara Perteghella Giunta Lab having a great time at the 37th annual meeting on Biology of Genomes at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory #bog24 💪 🧬♀️

Alcune foto del nostro tour guidato alle Nazioni Unite del 24 Maggio 🤩Ringraziamo tutti i partecipanti e coloro che hanno reso questo interessante evento possibile, in primis l'Ambasciatore Maurizio Massari e il consigliere Andrea Speronello. #airicercany #UN #guidedtour

ERC-funded positions now open❗️❕❗️ Join the Giunta Lab to understand human DNA evolution through the study of satellite repeats 🧬🧫🔬 APPLY here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/239604 Pls RT 🔄🗨️🙏

On this note, Chromosoma Editors @BungoAkiyoshi Simona Giunta Tatsuo Fukagawa have something *BIG*, something collaborative and something special cooking with #centromere experts! Tic Toc Tic Toc, stay tuned! (Clues: #Chromosoma circa 1985)

Keynote address at 9 am, panel, talks, networking now finally some cool science-themed open bar 🍸 #NextGenOmics

La legge sugli appalti ha causato una situazione insistenibile! Gli acquisti concernenti la ricerca scientifica dovrebbero essere esenti da burocrazia (e poi magari anche dall'IVA, come nel resto del mondo!). Per favore, firmate l'appello e condividete associazionelucacoscioni.it/landing/la-ric…

Like astronauts exploring a planet, no stone is left unturned in the Giunta Lab when it comes to human DNA 🧬Our computational simulations show that centromere sequences are intrinsically prone to complex and unstable secondary structures correlated with chromosome missegregation

Phenomenonal talks at the #ESHG2025 this year! Can't wait to share our new data - now in press - from the Giunta Lab tomorrow morning, so stay tuned! 🧬 Great to have such a large international conference at home 🇮🇹 the perfect science/weather/people/food combo! European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG)

Very proud of my University Sapienza Università di Roma for a series of interventions for Palestine, Ukraine, students & professors in war zones, including fellowships and ad hoc positions. Please reach out to me personally if you are an eligible candidate✌️ ☮️ 🧬 (uniroma1.it/sites/default/…)

Just to add that our University Hospital Policlinico Umberto I hosting childhood cancer patients from Gaza & other war zones, also kids needing complex prosthetics interventions. In a world that lost it, proud to be part of an institution showing our #Humanity uniroma1.it/it/notizia/arr…

🚨 Hot off the press!!! Wanted to share this to celebrate the momentous achievement from the Giunta Lab and for the human centromere / genomics communities as a whole... more posts to come next week but for now, happy Fourth & happy reading ❤️🧬💻 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Visionary work by one of the greatest scientist and person I know - congrats to the whole team!